Twelve hours before the gunfire, Benton’s 18-year-old son, Tyler Jewkes, called 911 asking for an ambulance, and told a dispatcher his mother was “screaming about her neck” being injured during a loud physical argument with her boyfriend. Police responded but left less than 30 minutes later without arresting Fallon.

"I asked for additional information from that officer, 'can you please be more specific, give more detail on what we did on that call?'” Stephens said.

The responding officer then wrote a six-paragraph report detailing why he did not believe there was probable cause to arrest Fallon.

The original report was then deleted from Littleton’s computer system, and the city’s records custodians did not turn it over when Denver7 Investigates filed a public records request for "all reports and records created or written referencing any and all police activity" at the apartment building where Benton and Fallon lived between Jan. 4 and Jan. 31.” Denver7 Investigates followed up with three separate emails asking whether the city had turned over every version of the reports and city officials did not respond.

“Have you been able to figure out why multiple requests asking for all reports were not provided for us? Do you see why we felt that maybe there was some attempt to mislead us?” Denver7 chief investigative reporter Tony Kovaleski asked Stephens.

“I totally understand the confusion on your part, as well as ours,” Stephens responded. “The open records requests, when you're talking about the kind of documentation that we can generate on a case of this nature, a homicide suicide case … it's a lot of documentation. We have to be very careful that we release what we can release, what we're legally authorized to release, and there's a lot of people in our city that are involved in that decision.”